Re: [SLUG] sending output to both screen and log file, how ?

[Jamie Wilkinson <jaq@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

This one time, at band camp, Glen Turner wrote:
>On Thu, 2004-08-19 at 07:36, Voytek Eymont wrote:
>> I have something like:
>> 
>> echo "$now $0 executed for $DOMAIN on in $exectime sec" >> /var/log/awstats.log
>> 
>> how can I also send it to screen without repeating the echo line ?
>
>Do your sysadmins a favour and use the "logger" command to write log
>messages via the syslog facility. "logger" has a "-s" option to write to
>stderr (the screen) as well as to the system log.

Add some SNMP traps for good measure :-)

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